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Sunday, 5 April 2015

On my last evening
in Bucharest, I stepped out of the hotel and walked up the road to the left on Calea Victoriei.

Hardly 100 metres
from the hotel was the Tourist Office, but it was closed. This in my view was
information the hotel concierge could have given me to make my visit more
eventful. I was quite irked to discover this.

After passing one
of the many Orthodox Christian churches on this street I got to a square of
significant historical importance.

There are many
divides between Western European Christianity and Eastern European Christianity.
Our churches are churches are built to different designs and our feasts are on
different days. Their celebration of Easter is a week later than ours.

I got chatting to another
tourist from Denmark as I lamented the fact the skateboarders had taken over
the place with no sense of history or occasion that warranted the memorial.

The revolution
probably predates their births, it was then that one of their number came to
compliment my dressing, and then asked to be photographed with me holding a
skateboard. I obliged and returning to our conversation wondered if they could
ever appreciate the need to view memorials with some respect.

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